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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Proline (was Re: TCP/IP  UUCP  (was:Re: Amiga Bashers))
Keywords: confusing subject lines.
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.050419.19702@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 05:04:19 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <7085@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) 
writes:

>
>In article <1990Sep22.055242.20803@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.
uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Or where are the Apple II programmers working on networking?  TCP/IP?  I
>>>know folks who are working on this for the Amiga.  Or how about having
>>ever heard of ProLine?
>
>	I will first say that I am now about to speak about something
>I know virtually nothing about. I realize it's not a very smart thing
>to do, but I'm an adult.. (Children, don't try this at home!)
>
>	Isn't TCP/IP related to UUCP? If I'm even correct that they
>have something to do with each other, then I think I have something to say 
>about this..
>
>	ProLine does not use UUCP. From what I understand, all messages
>run through some gateway machine that runs both UUCP and whatever
>(proprietary?) standard that Morgan Davis's using in ProLine.
>
>	What I am interested in is true UUCP so that I could get 
>permission from my school (I'm not saying they'd even do it, I just
>mean theoretically) and get my own newsfeed from the UNIX machine I have
>an account on. This would be for a BBS or something.
>
>	One question about ProLine that I have is this though: Does every
>ProLine site in the country have to call up that one gateway (thus 
>messages get out/in daily or hourly or whatever but potentially HUGE phone
>bills) or do messages 'jump' from one node to the next (thus possibly
>days or WEEKS until a message gets out/in)???
>-- 
>        /    Apple II(GS) Forever!    unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu     \
>        \If cartoons were for adults, they'd be on in prime time./

   I just assumed that ProLINE allowed you to call the local Internet port
   and send messages that way.  I really don't know though.  Can someone
   help us here?